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Stapled wraps. Zustand: Very Good+. First Edition. [light handling wear only, tiny stain near top edge of rear cover]. (cartoon art reproductions) A compilation of hundreds of editorial cartoons that appeared in American newspapers and magazines throughout the 1940s, commenting (usually with great hostility) on the efforts of the American Federation of Musicians, led by its president, James Caesar Petrillo, to resist the use of recorded music to replace live musicians in various entertainment media, primarily the radio. Petrillo, who assumed the presidency in 1940, "dominated the union with absolute authority" (Wikipedia), and led its battle against "canned music" by banning union members from working for recording companies, a walkout that took more than two years to be resolved. During the 1940s Petrillo was the public face of the striking musicians, which made him the visual target of editorial cartoonists and the punch-line of numerous gags on the radio, in movies, etc. As Leo Chessman, the A.F. of M.'s International Secretary, explained in his introductory message to the locals: "No man -- possibly excepting a president of the United States -- has been so persistently cartooned. Herein you will find your president pilloried as a thug, a crude illiterate, a dictator and one-man monkey wrench in the wheels of progress." The booklet contains 64 un-numbered pages (not counting the covers), with anywhere from four to six cartoons reproduced per page; all the cartoons are sourced (with due deference paid to copyright holders), but very few are dated. Uncommon.